I love you, she said. Khalid lifted his head to hers. She placed a hand against his cheek. Beyond words.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Life is sacred existence.

I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.

My singing is a mix between Jericho/ Fergie/ Jesus

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.