I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

The country is laid out in a haphazard sloppy fashion offensive to the tidy organized mind.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I'll do that.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.

He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement you should include all things in your gratitude.

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

I just love when the Internet is wrong. It's the only thing that will save journalism.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Dance is my passion.

I always observe the people who pass by when I ride an escalator. I'll never see most of them again, so I imagine a lot of things about their lives... about the day ahead of them.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

There is nothing more important in the world than loving yourself.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks. When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most not when you're at your peak.