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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can not get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That is in friendship, that is a deal, that is a commitment. Do not give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that is for life.

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we are hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, you are going to have to learn to do this, and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we are children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they are scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it is pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

It is surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you are not comfortable within yourself, you can not be comfortable with others.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.