Love is—a shade of what I feel.

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

Time is God’s given asset to humans

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life.

My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Homer no function beer well without.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.