Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

When an invincible weapon deals with an impenetrable defense, war is useless. The wisest decision is to ceasefire and do synergy.

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

This big fat woman bumped me on the floor, she was rarin' to go, she was rarin' to go. Then she did a dip, I almost broke my hip.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.