When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

Courage isn't something you can conjure, it's either in you or it's not.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice, ' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.