The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function

Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness

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

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

-- So this is the measure of your God's Mercy.-- No. This is the measure of Pharaoh's soul.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Germany's like Wisconsin, but with, like, a really bad past.

We need to care about reality more than we care about what we want to be true about it.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, 'No, no, that's not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything's great, everything's good, you're going to be fine'.

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?