Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more you get back? It’s love, Alex.’To which Alex asked, ‘What about pain?

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.

A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate.