Eat together and not separately, for the blessing is associated with the company.

One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.

To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman.

Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.

There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I think Barack Obama is gonna go down as the worst president ever, frankly. I used to say that about Jimmy Carter but I think he's gonna be surpassed.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

He who cannot obey cannot command.

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap