Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

...It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.

I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.

4 minutes in and this video has already given me an erection

In life we can never really value peace unless we experience war.

Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself!

Whatever you're thinking about, you will attract.

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

One of the things that I have encouraged President Trump to do, and I'm optimistic about this, is to take on directly the regulatory state; to take it on, to fire bureaucrats.