The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.

There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم

And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty).And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine.

Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!

Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.

The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.

He who at night feeling tired because of working in the daytime, then at night he was forgiven of Allah" —

Of whomsoever I had been Master (Mawla), Ali here is to be his Master. O Allah, be a supporter of whoever supports him (Ali) and an enemy of whoever opposes him.

Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

World knows I am pathetic in remembering dates. I really wonder how I perfectly remember all the dates on which we met

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.