The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.Let the spirit dance with joy.

I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

Everything that people say is testable.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.