I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

Love is the ultimate style.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.