We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.