Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.

Do not just pass through life, purposely live it.

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.