The one thing that matters is the effort.

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.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.