Dr. Na'im Akbar Quotes & Sayings

I've started dreaming in Spanish, which has never happened before. I wake up feeling different, like something inside me is changing, something chemical and irreversible. There's a magic here working its way through my veins. There's something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively - the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees. And I love Havana, its noise and decay and painted ladyness. I could happily sit on one of those wrought-iron balconies for days, or keep my grandmother company on her porch, with its ringside view of the sea. I'm afraid to lose all this, to lose Abuela Celia again. But sooner or later I'd have to return to New York. I know now it's where I belong - not instead of here, but more than here. How can I tell my grandmother this? — Cristina Garcia

Behind each and every difficult mountain is an easy valley. Keep climbing; endure a little more. Your pain will bring you gain! — Israelmore Ayivor

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer. — Joe Zawinul

You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think of me as a mini-folk hero because it's difficult for them to believe a man of my age is sexually active. — Bob Newhart

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran

Girls love it when you have some weird nerdy thing in your room. It makes you look less threatening, even though I'm, like, very threatening. I'm the most threatening guy ever. — Ansel Elgort

God, I've missed you. — Cora Carmack

When you're a litigator, you write so much, so many briefs, over and over again, that you're kind of really focused on one document and have draft after draft, and really pay attention to every single word. — Greg Poehler

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my name as an actor. — Darren Shahlavi

Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless. — Robert Ferrigno

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. — Adam Ferguson

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out. — Dylan Smith

To live for yourself is to rob yourself of your own humanity. It is only in living for Christ that we actually begin to become what we were meant to be. — Paul David Tripp