We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.

Appreciate life instead of resisting it.

Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer.

The greatest curse in life that one can acquire is REGRET.

The Law of Chaos: Any activity or event that seems to lie beyond the boundaries of possibility will usually be the first thing to occur.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

You're only as good as your values.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.