To believe in yourself is to light a spark with the potential to start a fire.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

Without the rocks, the streams will lose their song

Omens don't influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it's all upto you when YOU want.

I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.