No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

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

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

All the stats don't mean a thing if we don't get the win. The most important stat is the win. Nothing else really matters if you don't get the win.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.