Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Smile in such a nice way that you introduce yourself.

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.