The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Oh, how I wish I was a woman—his woman.

I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

My goals are so high.

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

This is about doing something difficult and not stopping when it becomes not just difficult, but cold and difficult...or cold and wet and difficult...or cold and wet and dark and difficult.