Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.

The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

Life is a manifestation of unity.

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

Five years from today, you will be the same person that you are today, except for the books you read and the people you meet.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Writers express their thoughts through words

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.