Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

God is calling you to relinquish your old habits and beliefs that are holding you back from being all He called you to be. To trust that He has something bigger and better in store for you.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts.

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

The tyrant is a child of pride.