Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

I wouldn’t want freedom all the time but it’s nice to know it’s attainable

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.