How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

The real work is in the Heart: Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake, Then it needs no Friend.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

Your hope in my heart is the rarest treasure Your Name on my tongue is the sweetest word My choicest hours Are the hours I spend with You - O God, I can't live in this world Without remembering You

I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

I can walk... see."I made my legs walk."What are you doing?""Vertical walkin'."Alec laughed. "Pitch Perfect?""Amazin' film.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Come through for others and they will come through for you.

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

Choose your thoughts carefully [...] you are the masterpiece of your own life.

There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.