Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

I do not have silver nor gold to give you, but i have a heart of gold to keep you.

Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble.

The real gift of today is somehow finding the me I knew ought to exist but has not.

I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'm out in the woods on a bike or a run. I feel on top of the world, and nothing else makes me feel that way.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

It's hard to view myself sometimes as even in the same league as other musicians, mainly because there's so much music before me. I feel overinformed by different styles and different possibilities.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

Ive never had to fight hard for anything Ive gotten in the past.