My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

DON'T FOR GET WHERE YOU CAME FROM SO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.

Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.