Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

...Opinion without a rational process.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."