If you don't know the blues. . . there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter
Find peace in where and what you are.
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.
No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira]
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.