There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.