Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We were born in charge of our own being, our own personality. Other people's personalities are beyond our control.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Destruction CAN be beautiful!

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.