One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Peace begins with a smile.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Always do whatever’s next.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

Heaven means to be one with God.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

People want to feel hopeful.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

My life is my message.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.