The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

You are the one who calls the law of attraction into action, and you do it through your thoughts.

As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.