"I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One."

“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”

Source : "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview With Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

“I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.”

“At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.”

“I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.”

“We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.”

“How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.”

Source : "Coco Rocha Responds To ‘Fat’ Flap: This Is A Moral Matter", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

“She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.”

“Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.”