Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.