Strong desire to recite your lines from your high school's production of "Fiddler on the Roof".
"Strong in will", he recited at a press conference, "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield".
But then he would switch to the language of the tabla, reciting the phrases that his fleet, strong fingers tattooed on goatskin.
There is a link then between music and memory, but why, when we hear a particular song, do we feel strong emotions rather than just being able to recite the lyrics?
Also known as Zikr in Islamic terminology, reciting Allah's name will ultimately make you a strong Muslim because you are constantly reminded of what good He has done for you and all of humanity.
He constantly recites Persian poetry, and speaks Persian with the strong accent of Mashad, the northeastern city where he was born and lived until the age of 21.
At age 40, while on retreat, he saw a figure, whom he later identified as the angel Gabriel, who asked him to "recite" (iqraʾ), then overwhelmed him with a very strong embrace.
"We believe in Britain, sound economic sense, family values, strong policing and institutions such as church, family and the police," recites Andrew Chard, chairman of the Cheltenham Conservatives.
The strong, delicate, poetically resonant text has become a kind of national scripture, recited happily or mournfully, as the occasion requires.
As the special prayer we recite on Hanukkah puts it, we thank God for handing "the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few".
