True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

Be informed here and now that incessant prayers does  not finger God to open the Windows of heaven. What God wants to see Is your passion towards success and your giving drive...nothing else!

Creativity expands the mind, stretches it beyond ordinary human comprehension, resulting in the mind being elastic and capable of transcending and discerning complex ideas.

One way of keeping your dreams alive is to keep it to yourself. It can save you and protect your dreams to a greater extent.

Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.

Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you.

No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.