The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

Action may not always bring happiness

Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do.

You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry.You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged.You learn the value of water when the fields are bare.

we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown

Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes: Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.