Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.

Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.

Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.

Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

Allah rendered patience as a help for getting reward.

Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

We will go forward... we will never go back.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.