Our fears are illusions created by the mind of the beholder”.

It is better to have someone that likes you and makes you happy than to have someone that loves you and makes you unhappy.

True love is about appreciating each other unconditionally regardless of our title or position.

One of the best things I learned from my parents was to be HONEST and work HARD!

The power to shape your destiny lies in your strength to take control of your thoughts, abilities and actions.

A challenge only makes you stronger, wiser and a better person than you was yesterday.

Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it.

Don’t do things to point out your weaknesses, do things to point out your strength.

The best way to be you is to be yourself.

Appreciate yourself for who you’re not for what you’re.

One of the golden rules of success is to treat everything like a competition.

You can do anything under one condition

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.

As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism. They disguise children as witches and wizards, that is contrary to our culture.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.