Friendship neither finds nor makes equals..
I've always put myself intensely into my work..
Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness..
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intellige….
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capabl….
It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to….
You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your con….
I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity; that smooth stretc….
Keep at something even when you don't feel inspired. Don't wait for inspiration! I write a lot of songs that are terrible, in the hopes that one song….
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives..
Whatever you're aiming for, God's better..
Then why don't you go and ---- yourself..
I'd rather be really good at something or not do it at all..
Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?.
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where everyone w….
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family..
I am about to learn what it's like to live here..
If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..
Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest ….
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt m….