Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it.

Change is often overrated: at times, all you need to change is how you change what you change in your life.

Success is focusing on your A-list. Success is thinking profits. Success is doing only what works. Success is easier when you tread the path that leads to success

The best time to seek a favour is when you can give something in return. The best time to expect to succeed is when you're capable of working for it.

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control.

What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.

The player may experiment about with his swing, his grip, his stance. It is only when he begins asking his caddie's advice that he is getting on dangerous ground.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

If my book generates any sort of dialogue among Afghans, then I think it will have done a service to the community.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.