“To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom but developing rich, meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between your career and your personal life.”

People only complain about things they can do something about.

Little acts of kindness and caring from other people rather than the negativity and anger.

Don’t censor your dreams or vision with practicalities and probabilities.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

I think when you have big dreams you attract other big dreamers.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then neither is bathing, but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Successful people have successful habits Unsuccessful People Don’t!

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

If it ain’t fun don’t do it.

If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth—it is you who took the actions, thought the thoughts, created the feelings, and made the choices that got you to where you now are. It was you!

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.

I’ve always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

What is the why behind everything you do?

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it’s the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure.

But all development programs of the United States and the European countries unfortunately exclude the private sector, which could make investments based on profitability.

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good.

We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.