Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served.

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

...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

Danny was the least of her worries. She had heard the people on the street and could see the headline now: “Pittsburgh Invaded by Vampires.”Oh fudge. Jack was so going to kill her.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.