I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Without stones there is no arch.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

New talents are the future.

I know you feel alone, but just look up at the stars, and everything that is out there is what you really are

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

It doesn't matter where you start. Only that you begin.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.