An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free.

When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.