I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

I don't like what you're doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

On a supra human level, yeah, I got That Which Is. Yet on a simple human level, rare are times when either my left or my right foot is not in some kind of shit.

Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.

When it's all been said and done...There's hell of a lot more said, than done.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.