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

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.

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.

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.

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The establishment is divorcing itself from its base - from voters who are choosing a candidate who says he stands for things that are anathema to the establishment.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it's perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.

Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.