One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

God is the designer of the family.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it?

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Positivity is like a boomerang. The more we put it out there, the more it comes back to us.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again. "Inaccessible." "Not, " I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even--not even white birds.

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

If you want to learn about money, learn from somebody who has a lot of it.

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.