Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

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.

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything."If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all” - Michael Angelo

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.