Life isn't about being perfect, it's about being perfected.

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

‪Fear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't.

Behind every dreamer stands an army full of true believers.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.