Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.

If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!

I mean, that was the code, wasn’t it? Single girls and taken guys weren’t allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Surrendering yourself to God is the only solution to all your problems.

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe in the character, how can you be scared for them?

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a lot of writers had given me: a good time on a bad day.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together.

We're like a two-year old playing with fire ... we're messing around with something really dangerous and don't really understand what will happen.