Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful.

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

Give your trust sparingly and only to those who have earned it.

Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.

If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.