Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I do like the world quite a lot.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.