Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.

For what are star-crossed lovers but a soul for another soul meant.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.