Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Rule 3: ‘Negative’ thoughts are normal. Don’t fight them

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

It isn't a given that the companies that provide mobility today will also be the ones to do so tomorrow. Every company has to work hard to make this happen.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.