Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

All the sick are gonna be healed, the dead are gonna be raised and nations are gonna turn to God in a day.

I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.