Attitudes are every bit as important as aptitudes.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

‎There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.