We have to be the media when media is silent

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

I don't like what you're doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

Islam doesn't need reform, we need to reform the Muslim mind.

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.