My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

It’s a bet – the more you Give, the more you will Get.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

Effective Communication is a way to success

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

A walk is as good as a home run.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.