Everyone has their own path, everyone has a destiny. Your's just happens to be a little bigger than everyone else's.

I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate.

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.

I don't think that I would ever do serenade to be romantic. You have to have so much balls to do that.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

We have one asset, and that's people.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.