"Art without heart is craft."

“Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.”

“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness...”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation

“People are put into your life for seasons, for different reasons, and to teach you lessons.”

“Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.”

“Islam is not a set of rules. It’s a way of seeing life and the world.”

“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”

“I love a man who knows how to walk. I do like a gentleman, a man who opens the door and a man who walks on the proper side of the street with you. There’s something safe about it; he’s protecting you. That’s a really nice quality. You don’t see it as often anymore. I pay attention to those things. I know it sounds silly, but I love that. I’m fortunate to say that I have a good guy. Oh, and he has to have great hands. There’s a lot I find sexy in a man, but strong, manly hands are very important.”

“You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.”