My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.

You ought to ask God for a specific task. And He will grant you grace to accomplish it.

Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that your are.

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

There are no victories at discount prices.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.