Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

I've always expressed my thoughts in color but we remain blind.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.