I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.

The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

A woman sees a problem and sets about solving it, not analyzing it.

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.

My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

As we awaken individually, we will act more powerfully collectively.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.