One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

...Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it

I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.