Some things are sent to test us. Clearly you must be good at problem solving if you are being set tough exams.

I may not be perfect but I am perfect enough to be a very good rendition of me.

Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.

Of all the hurdles you will need to face in this life time the hardest will be your self imposed limitations

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.

Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody's sake.

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

My song is ya girlfriend's wakin up ringer

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room for hours. I had never thought about what it would be like to have siblings.