The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

The power of uncovering India’s biggest concealment is in your hands.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.

Heaven? That has no hold over me.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.