The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

Our intention creates our reality.

If you believe it will work out , you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't you will see obstacles.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they’d not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.