What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.

Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.

Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.

By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.

A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.

Noise in the form of words'

what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary.

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

If you don't have an assistant, you are one!

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.

All you have to do is recognize an opportunity.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Whenever I do anything, I need to take 15 or 20 minutes, maybe longer, to regroup.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.