We should never let another person get under our skin to the point that we feel hate for them

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

Holy existence.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.