Losing leaves a bitter taste that lingers long after the sweetness of victory has been forgotten.
The best fighter is never angry.
I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Readers are the glue that binds the books together.
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...
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.