It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

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.

She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.

Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.