We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

I am alive because I am breathing, and I am breathing because God is great and merciful.

Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.

My mother was an activist so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.