He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion.

Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness

The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function

He was going to embrace love every day. He would appreciate the world every hour. And he will believe in God every second

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous

Mourning was really for the living.

His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks

That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Word 'Classy' is not for commons. Try to be classy!

A jester, a bad character.

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.

Sound comes to us over time. You don’t get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.