Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money.
Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.
Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!
The way to build your savings is by spending less each month.
In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you. . . it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.
When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.
When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.
Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank