We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

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

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it

Progress is the mother of all problems.

I love you - but don't touch me.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.