“Believe something is impossible,’ said his ancestor calmly, ‘and you will surely fail. But believe in yourself and you can do anything.”

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”

“Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.”

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”

“He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One”

“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.”