Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.

Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.

Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

Don't be afraid to show your feelings. Wear your heart on your sleeves. The right one will see

A woman should not hold on to her man so tight, afraid to let him out of sight. A woman should give her man his space but hold on to his heart

You can love many people. But the truth is you can only be IN LOVE with just ONE.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.

Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.

The day i am not listening to music is the very next day of my last day.

It takes an enthusiastic mind to understand all the necessary steps needed to make one's dream a reality, but a lot of discipline and perseverance to stay consistent all the way through.

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.