Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

Like many things, I am nothing.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

People change all the time whether you like it or not.

One of the things that's crucial to me about love is that it has to be in the moment.