I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology.

For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

No interruptions, stereos pumpin from the dungeon, coming live from Flatbush Junction

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.