You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Sacred dreams are dreamt day by day.

A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself." "Why?" I said. "If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.