People needed proof that Utopia was nothing more than a theory, an illusion read in fictional stories.

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

What can I say? Some women are killers.

Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

Islaam is the Name of the Universe. Christ is the Soul, and Abraham, the Foundation — The Rainbow At Midnight

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.