What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.

It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

I love food, so exercise is important for me.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Embrace more deeply His love, His mercy and grace, and the powerful gifts of His Atonement.

If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is that what I want?