“Once you discover that you can, you must.”

“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had.”

“Once Ibrahim bin Adham saw a stone with the inscription, "Turn me over and read!" When he did an inscription appeared: "You do not practice what you know. Why do you seek what you do not know?”

“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.”

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

“You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”