Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...

All of them. Fated to love in vain.

Why are we fated to love those we cannot have ...?

She was destroyed many years ago, La Belle, on the cobblestones of the alley beside the opera house ...

Like a brilliant shooting star, she had almost reached her zenith when her light was extinguished.

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

What takes more courage. To live ... or to die?

Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child’s insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

I walk by faith, not by sight.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

I think the most important is believing in yourself and being passionate about everything you do in life.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.