Francine Prose Quote

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East ma...

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried wit...

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.