Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.

Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

God is found by those, With kind hearts.

EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING

When you feel like things are out of control, you take control.Yeah, that's what you do. Take control.So, yeah.Oh, yeah.

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.