I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

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

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

In search of Magnum opus - perhaps you were divined to be mine.

People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.