Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

A strong woman strengthens women. An empowered woman empowers women. When one woman rises we are all elevated.

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

To die before one fears to die may be a boon.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

I love humanity, I love the way people look

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.