The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Good leaders are always in the “act” of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

Nothing inspires me greater than the silly behaviour and crazy ideas of my best friends...

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

I think it's important to set up that boundary of respect for your kids at a young age, so they will know, I better listen to Mommy.

Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.