We’d both already read several novels by Tóibín: The Master and The Story of Night and The Blackwater Lightship.
To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.
Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues o...
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...
The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them.