Luck is the devil with a halo

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

I fell in love with the expression in his eyes when he looked at me.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.

A servant cannot be greater than his master.