I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Great winds only challenge great trees.

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.

We often forget that growth requires sacrifice.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.

Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street.

We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different.