Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop..

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an educa….

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs..

What is not possible is not to choose..

You are here to experience life, not to escape from it..

Live constructively and live optimistically..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one..

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

I've been through a lot as far as love..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong..

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel.