Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

Creativity is the art and science of expressing inner beauty.

Battles are won in the Prayer Room!

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

Love is not an experience. Love is what you are.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Innocence is the source of love.