Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future

Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet ﷺ

A true Muslim is like rain, wherever it falls, it will benefit.

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.

Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views and misleading rulers.

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.

Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.