“When weakness becomes power, it leads you to success.”

“We always need a reason to live, and we pretend to have it.”

“Sometime we get so tired that we wish to get defeated, and want to feel the pleasure of that failure.”

“Islam doesn't ask you to cover your eyes, but to guard them.”

“We are alone by birth, but we conceal the truth from ourselves till death.”

“We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”

“It's a strange failure of the literary world that Updike never quite received his due. Despite winning two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards and countless other awards and honours, he was deni...”

“I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.”

“I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.”