It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses and people who accept truth soar.

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place?

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.