Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

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

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

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

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.

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.

Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don’t get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly.

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations.

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.