"The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does."

“There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.”

“My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it”

“Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an eternal store of heavenly truth, and charts the course to eternal life. . . . Belief is the brilliant beacon that marks the course through the waves and woes of the world to that celestial harbor where rest and safety are found.”

“Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.”

“Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.”

Source : Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.144, Hay House, Inc

“The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.164

“The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.”

“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”