If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

Allah will support the just state even if it is led by unbelievers, but Allah will not support the oppressive state even if it is led by believers

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.