Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet ﷺ

A true Muslim is like rain, wherever it falls, it will benefit.

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.

Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence.

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!