When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.