it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Wisdom is sweet to the soul as honey is sweet to taste.

By all that was holy, he wanted to kiss every inch of her at least a thousand times.

I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch – I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.