“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing that is a friend who cares.

All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents’ wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.

I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves — they’re good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on ’em.

Money can’t buy you happiness but it buys you all the things you don’t have, even friends.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta’ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.