The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.