You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.

I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

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Music is our bidet, man.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.