The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

Imagination makes the worldand all the wonders in it.The seed of every dream unfurlsas you with love begin it!

Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

I didn't just want to put something out that I wasn't satisfied with.

People do notice you but they behave normally if you behave normal.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.