In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness

Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness

The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function

He was everyone and every living creature in one ecstatic motion.

He was going to embrace love every day. He would appreciate the world every hour. And he will believe in God every second

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

Leadership was not an act of bravery but rather forbearance and the strength to move forward with humility in the belief of what is righteous

Mourning was really for the living.

His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.

Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.

Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.