Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

No man can do a great and enduring work for God who is not a man of prayer, and no man can be a man of prayer who does not give much time to praying.

LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.

Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'