One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

There is plenty of people I'd love to collaborate with, would love to produce with, would love to write songs with.

Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.