i can't prove this but i can't prove you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

I love how intimate I've become with failure.

You must learn to see everything around yourself as your resources, your opportunities and turn them into your weapons so that everything works in your favor and helps to achieve your goal

You can be proud of your country and culture and, at the same time, recognize that there is something that's wrong that needs to be changed.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul