If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.

I'm aware that I am flawed. I'm aware that I have issues. I'm aware that I need to be able to be healthy, not just physically but mentally.

Anything I can do to raise awareness and money for charity, I like to do.

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

“The difference of natural talents in different men, is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education. When they came in to the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were, perhaps, very much alike, and neither their parents nor play-fellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupations. The difference of talents comes then to be taken notice of, and widens by degrees, till at last the vanity of the philosopher is willing to acknowledge scarce any resemblance.”

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice... If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.

"When somebody has a breakthrough innovation, it is rarely one little thing. Very rarely, is it one little thing. It's usually a whole bunch of things that collectively amount to a huge innovation."

"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product."

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”

“Breath is the king of mind.”

"If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year."