Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds

If you do not know the blessings you have when you have them, then Allah will teach you about them by taking them away from you

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give

When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to you with His gentleness.

When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it.

People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.

The most beloved manifestation of obedience to God is trust in Him

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.

The realization of 'La ilaha illa Allah' is one of the states of the heart that can be neither expressed by the tongue nor thought out by the mind.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.