Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

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.

Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.

God’s house will be happy because Christ will be there.

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

I'm very grateful for every thing I have. You know when you start losing that then you start losing what life's all about.

I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.

Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.