The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

Words are spiritual containers.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.