When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: “I wish no gifts, only presence.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset

Dream it. Wish it. Do it.

You learn more from losing than winning.

Be stronger than your excuses.

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

Dream without fear love without limits.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Love is when you sit beside someone doing nothing, yet you feel perfectly happy.

Die with memories, not dreams.

Standing alone is better than being around people who don't value you.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.

I've never, like some people are, been embarrassed to be in radio.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.