You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

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.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

A smile costs about $240.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

What is the difference between a 2°C world and a 4°C world? Human civilisation!

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?