Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Sometimes people think the old days were better than today. Even though life was simpler and slower, it was not necessarily easier.

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

The Lord is in the details of our lives.