The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.

Our flesh is a gift of laughter.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.