Praise Allah, for by praise His blessings multiply.
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
The song tells me what to play.
Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
First, believe in the world-that there is meaning behind everything.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
I drink this [whiskey glass] and I'm just another JBL? you don't get it, I'm not like you. I'm not JBL, I'm CM Punk! Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.
I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.