There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work.

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

What you think of me is none of my business.

We are what we think.

I believe in miracles.

Love is stronger than hate.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

We are what we are.

God is the Creator of all things.

Daily dance uplift the soul to spiritual realms.

A revived spirit, a renewed soul.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime

The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

I don't have to accept what you think I should look like and I do not accept what you think I should look like.

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!