Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted.

Worrying about the dunya is a darkness in the heart, while worrying about akhirah is a light in the heart.

If the hearts are pure, they will never have enough from reciting Allah's words (the Qur'an).

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.

Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart

Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.

Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.

If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.