It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment or it will run to weeds.

Just being the seeker somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment is in itself the important thing and its the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Minimalism is not the lack of something. It is simply the perfect amount of something.

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

Do not commit to any side or cause but yourself.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Brazil is on my side.

Visionless status quo policy towards Latin-America, particularly towards Cuba, has turned off a lot of people, and I think it's created an opening.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

If you believe in equal rights then what do womens rights gay rights etc. mean Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

'Victoria Para Chino,' my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to 'Sin Nombre.'

Appearance has so little to do with where we should get our confidence from.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

Surviving means being born over and over again.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.