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

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.

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.

For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

I'm planting my love in the garden of my hope.

I don’t kill children, ” she said. “Not even when it’s the right thing to do.

I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.

Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too.

One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!