The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women

If you are truthful you will survive. If you lie you shall perish.

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah

When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

If Abu Bakr is dead and Umar is Caliph, then we hear and obey.

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

I have dedicated my life to the way of Allah, Most High.

Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy. Yeah right.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

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