Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives.

It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.

If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

I never worked out for any kind of image.