Work diligently. Work hard. Focus. Perform as if you are at the Olympics. One day, unexpectedly, it will start paying off.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.

You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

Patience is seeking help only from Allah.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Donald Trump trying to do to the American voter what he did to the people that signed up for this course: He's making promises he has no intention of keeping.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.