It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it

Fight all you want, but you will never win. You can change a system only by being part of that system, by being part of the change.

An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all.

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

The Kite CharmFor A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child

Light shines but why do many souls desire to stay in darkness?.

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free.