If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

Write your sacred story.

, m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

Lets not focus on saving a nickel... lets focus on making a buck.

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with.

I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.