I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

When it comes to betting on yourself... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!