The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.