Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer.

I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.

All men have need of the gods.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.

The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.