What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

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.

There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

Armies are not only for offensives.

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.