"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"So many books, so little time."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity"

"Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently."

"Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will."

"cause when there's life there's still hope"

"[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not."

"What other people think of me is not my business."

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God."

"There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient."

"Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen."

"We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us."

"Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it."

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

"We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!"

"All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind."

"Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright"

"My CreedI do not choose to be a common man,It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,I seek opportunity … not security.I do not wish to be a kept citizen.Humbled and dulled by having theState look after me.I want to take the calculated risk;To dream and to build.To fail and to succeed.I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;I prefer the challenges of lifeTo the guaranteed existence;The thrill of fulfillmentTo the stale calm of Utopia.I will not trade freedom for beneficenceNor my dignity for a handoutI will never cower before any masterNor bend to any threat.It is my heritage to stand erect.Proud and unafraid;To think and act for myself,To enjoy the benefit of my creationsAnd to face the world boldly and say:This, with God’s help, I have doneAll this is what it meansTo be an Entrepreneur."

"Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God."

"Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try."

"What others think about you is none of your business."