“Sebaik-baik ukuran terhadap diri, ialah cermin”

“Aku nak ke masjid. Disana rumahku. Aku harap Tuhan sahaja yang tak benci padaku. Aku harap ibadahku tidak kenal tua," kata bapa dengan nada yang berlainan”

“Bijak terhadap kekurangan dan kesalahan orang lainBerani mengakui jasa dan kelebihan orang lainLupakan jasa dan kebaikan diri sendiriLihat kekurangan dan kesalahan diri sendiri”

“Never make a decision while in the state of anger.”

“Sebuah cerpen yang tidak bagus, tetapi siap adalah lebih baik daripada sebuah cerpen yang kononnya bagus, tetapi tidak siap-siap.”

“Faith is revelation. And in order to receive revelation you have to be open. Belief is about closing yourself off -- a lie you tell yourself to make the world fit in with how you've decided it should be. Real faith is an action - a verb. It's truth unfolding.”

“What I saw there explained everything--the reason he had stayed away, why he had come to say good-bye. I can only describe what I saw by its effect on me. Every woman should be looked at in such a way, at least once her life. With a longing that cannot be contained--with love that goes beyond mere feeling because it transforms and-like the verse of the poem he had read--it dissolves, as an offering, a gift. I felt my face flush and waves of knowing suffused every pore, every cell of my being. I was loved. And in that love, I felt beauty--my own, unrealized until that moment, suddenly rising to consciousness in a way that made everything in me come alive to the beauty all around me. Nothing more needed to be said.”