"You may learn to imitate a birdcall,..." - Quote by Rumi

“I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.”

“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”

“Bring anger and pride under your feet,turn them into a ladder and climb higher.”

“So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”

“I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.”

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

“Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make another's day more loving and special for them. We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it but because we grow best in thoughtfulness.”

“If a lobster didn't look like a sci-fi monster, people would be less able to drop him alive into boiling water.”

“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”