It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.

If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him

Deep within my soul lies a great light.

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

I will say this. We have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of.

The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience