A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

You've got to keep looking for them, even after you find them. Otherwise, you'll lose them.

Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.

Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

Would it be anything like a literary disaster if Gore Vidal were to fall silent? Easy. No. In fact, there is something to be said for the idea.

Every institution is inherently demonic.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.