Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Find joy in simplicity and positivity.

Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.

Be grateful. You only have this one life and it will be as beautiful as you make it

Fainting is for preteen girls and those really weird goats. I do not faint!

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.