No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Fortune favors the audacious.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.