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

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.

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.

Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

Were they dating? Sort of. Exclusive? Not as far as she knew... Discovering new feelings was one thing. Actually changing your Facebook status? That was real.-- Savannah

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

I think I've got a funny face.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

You can't take it with you - but you can send it on ahead.

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

I've been writing songs since I was a wee child.