It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.

Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.

Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows of our lips, and the sobs in our voices.

From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life.I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.

The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices into its secret depths.

I watched life and death unfold like a dance on the side of that road. My son was born with a bloodstained face and he died with blood from the accident covering that same face.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be.