Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

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.

The sacred writing gives instructions on how to live life.

The world is a prison for the believer and paradise for a non-believer.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

The one who is not being born is dying.

Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.