People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.