The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

I have several [favorite clothes designers], but I like to wear Akris, Oscar De La Renta and Giorgio Armani.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.

A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.