If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

I know how to control the Universe. Why would I run to get a million, tell me?

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself. Only he who combines the two proves true.

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.