Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.

I had no musical training at all.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

I am very much in love with no one in particular.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.