Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.