In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.