How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Good things are associated with blue, like clear days, more than singing the blues. Just the word 'blue' in the singular is full of optimism and positive connotation to most people.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.