I can hear your angered silence, Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance, Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It's about joining together in the mystical heart.

From beginning to end, we are all alone.

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

Everything we do consciously remains for us.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.