Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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

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Believe None of What You Hear, And Only Half of What You See.

It has been my observation that whatever a person hungers for, Satan will appear to offer in exchange for a spiritual compromise.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do.

There is no patriotic art.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.