Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

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.

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it’s pathetic but, oh darling, it’s true.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.