Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? - Rumi
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. - Karen Allen
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. - Karen Armstrong