Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Flute of BreathDusky condolenceToday i 'll sing youMy Sighs

In the end we have one choice: to suffer well or suffer badly, to reach for or to reject that quality which is termed, equally, by both religious and secular, grace.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

How can I protect something so perfect without evil.

You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.