You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

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.

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Most of us think we can hide our weaknesses from the world, and sometimes, we're right. But only if we're very very strong.

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

Although Mr. Trump talks an interesting and entertaining game, rarely do I hear him lay out specifics.

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.