My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

There's always someone going to come around who can be better than the best. You want to be the first. No one can ever forget the first.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together.

You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.