Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

When life asks you a question, you learn. When you ask a question from life, you cry.

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can't do it or that you're not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST!

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.