Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art.

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.

You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson