"There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures"

"Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi."

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."

"Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up."

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection"

"Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time."

"What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out."

"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."

"Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."

"The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms"

"Born to be wild - live to outgrow it."

"Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax starve also"

"But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die."

"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"."

"Children make your life important."

"All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."