You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

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.

It's your life, not your death, that defines you.

Strong people write bad stories.

Take caution of what lies, in what you may beLIEve.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Sure. You get all slutty with Rafe. You freak out. You cry date rape drug.' - Hayley

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.