Surprise was not when i thanked my parents. Surprise came when they said, "What for"?

History most grandiose accomplishments can have the most trivial origin

History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them

Prayer can guarantee anyone's success but never someone's failure

It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live

Past success secures future failure if we continue to bask in its glow for too long

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

Your ambition is the most reliable alarm clock.

All Prophets were leaders, should all leaders be Prophets

Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight, you have it or you don't

Never let your fears ever stop you from living your life

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's current public posturing.

Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.

To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.