But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

Start visualizing and believing the life you want to live. Your strong visualization and self belief shall take you there. It's your life no one else than you only can change it!!!

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.