The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Only beards can't make you count as a man, you need to have respect for women in your heart for that.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

No supernatural can exist for the mankind that does not want to believe it.

His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.