That word, confidence, was like butter on a hot stove for Darien, what he considered the most attractive quality in a woman.

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

With the wings of imagination, don't be afraid to fly.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

Ive just got to do a good job and stay on in Formula One for as long as I can.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?