Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Don't waste your sorrows

Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

I like a woman with priorities.

Who? God. What? He loves you. Where? Everywhere. When? Always, forever, without ceasing. How? Totally, completely. Why? Because you are His child!