“Man’s mind keeps on hopping from hope to hope.”

Miracles do occur, but one has to work hard for them to happen.

A man is known by his books, his friends and the mistakes he admits.

Success is judged not by how you see yourself but by how others see you.

Since God made us originals, why stoop to be imitations.

The real-time to relax is when you’ve no time to relax.

What matters is not to add years to life but life to years.

Raise yourself from where you are. Have courage and rise high.

Love, like truth, can be shared, but not divided.

For a happy life, love the world and hate the word hate.

If you are right, go right ahead.

Equals argue – win or lose. Superiors just say it and win.

Boredom is not an illness but a symptom of an illness. Work defies boredom.

No power is as potent as the power of an idea.

Total absence of humor makes life a total drudgery.

Let your words be of velvet and your arguments of the steel.

A friend saved is a friend earned. A friend spent is a friend enjoyed.

I can’t go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I’m anything, I’m inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.

The thing about pessimism is that in most cases it’s nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you’ll be O.K.

Hope lingers like a moon.

O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.