The more modest your expectations, the less often you will court disappointment.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.