Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Life's a wondrous journey, don't take it for granted.

The God who loved us enough to die for us when we cared nothing for him is not about to shortchange us in life.

God's opinions of you are the only unchangeable realities of your life.

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?

The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.