Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.

You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it.

Hearts melt when the Beloved of Allah is mentioned.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.