Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.