In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom

Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line.

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

The first bond of society is marriage.

If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.