Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah.

Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.

Your malice and your striving to seek revenge are much more harmful to your health than they are to your antagonist.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Trust is not what the framers of the United States constitution and of this country relied on.

The interests of the state must come first.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

First you imitate, then you innovate.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.