Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

Jealousy blurs the focus.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.