A real friend is one with whom you can be silent.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.

I think true happiness comes out of peace. Peace comes out of many things, but it comes from fundamentally understanding yourself.

Your dreams will come true, but only when they’re supposed to and not a moment before.

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an...

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.

When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect...

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,’ Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

I’m just a true Irish boy at heart.

The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.

Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue; you pursue others because of the dreams they follow!

Things can go three ways—left, right, or straight. If you stand on one side, either the left or the right, you will have the quickest reaction 1/3rd of the time, the second quickest reaction 1/3rd...

Good enough never is

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

I wasn’t afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my purse for dealing with the less dangerous pests, but even I knew you...

I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up....

I’m a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.

I began my work in the ’70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all...

My true love is with amateur wrestlin;, that’s where I was born. I’ve always wanted to wrestle.

Your true idea is always a dangerous idea.

It’s true – women want the fantasy. So give them romance – but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else – not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others,...

It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about...

I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

Sometimes, things just aren’t meant to be. Sometimes, no matter how bad you want it, you got to let it go. True.. Letting go.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it’s a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true...

The moment to make your dreams come true is day before tomorrow, same time, called NOW.

My true love is history, but I didn’t know how I could make a living at it.

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I’m not sure. Perhaps because great books seem...

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It...

What we do,our choices, that’s what defines us.

There’s no bigger pleasure for a person perhaps than to enjoy his own company and its proof is that everyone loves sleeping as that helps them to be of their own and alone.

If ‘The New York Times’ says it, it must be true.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and there’s only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself.” (pg. 82)

To me, it’s never about the trick. I don’t care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that – that connection – that emotional connection is...

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

Violence?”Skulduggery said. “Violence is never the answer, until it’s the only answer.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary....

It’s all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn’t necessary to live a tragic life to create from...

A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be...

Das Vorrecht, das ich für mein Geschlecht beanspruche und das durchaus nicht so beneidenswert ist, dass Sie danach trachten müssten, besteht nur darin, dass unsere Liebe nimmer aufhört, auch wenn Leben und Hoffnung dahin sind.

It is true that when there’s a drone attack, those – that the – the terrorists are killed, it’s true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more...