You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.

And now she began muttering to herself. "God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

Let peace be. Let life be.

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

We might be on the same page, but I wasn't happy about reading it.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.

I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved that dress!

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.