Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.

The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.

Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

if something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities