When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

How a person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

Strong leaders cannot tolerate weak leaders above them.

If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.

A writer should feel deeply from his heart of the joys and sorrows of people. And he must write as honestly as possible. Then only can he claim to be a writer.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.

I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.