My life has been very full.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I owe my solitude to other people.

This is not a bad life.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Observe all men, thyself most.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I can express myself.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.