Allaah has not bestowed any blessing upon His slaves then taken it away and replaced it with patience, but what He has compensated them with is better than what He has taken away.

Even among the ugliness of evil that resonated throughout the green hills and flowering landscape, Northbrook was simply breathtaking to those who took the time to appreciate it.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

I wouldn't go into the studio if I didn't have a band who's ready, willing, and able.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Make every day your masterpiece.

He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.