I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.

Life is not always what we think it is.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

A creative person aspires to devote the core state of their mind fixated upon performing the surge of work that expresses the raw passion driving an evolving notion of their quintessence.

You are person with a goal

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

God knows, but He's waiting

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.