All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

I do not like violence.

Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."~Doyle Brunson

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

You have to think about yourself and think about where you are and if you're happy. If you feel good and you feel happy, then that's the path you should be on.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.