Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor.

I dreamt, I woke, I grafted, I failed, I persisted, I conquered.

Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end up with democratic results.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.