Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
There is a dearth of imagination and I think that's an understatement in a modern Muslim world. There is very little willingness to imagine different modes of existence and difference types of societies. On the American front, a lot of Muslims ask me, how do we respond to Islamophobia? What I say is, when you love someone or you love something, you put that thing or that person ahead of yourself. If you love America, then you put America ahead of yourself and you answer the question about Islamophobia, not in terms of how it affects you as a minority, but how it affects America at large.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.