Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

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.

You don't need passwords, you don't want to check phones. Sometimes you only want the other person to just tell you the truth!

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview.