Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy,...
There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...
Readers are the glue that binds the books together.
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...
Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.
In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.