Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

Allah will support the just state even if it is led by unbelievers, but Allah will not support the oppressive state even if it is led by believers

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

Please do not lose the ability to dream

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

No one is as smart as all of us.

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they were going to enjoy reading them.

None of us will honor our Heavenly Father and our Savior more than by serving as a devoted, compassionate missionary, "For them that honour me I will honour."

Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.