Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

All we need to do is start believing in ourselves and in America again.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

You can't save a person who doesn't want to be saved. It was like Mr. Eddie always told the new gardeners: Everybody's got to kill their own snakes.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

And I rejoiced in being what I was.

I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed.