Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

We swear by the Quran and Sunnah, and we will not compromise with any infidel... Islam is the truth and all else is falsehood.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

Life never seems to go the way you imagine it will.

Every human heart is human.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

Good golf begins with a good grip.

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.