I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.

I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.

O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.

Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

If you intend to speak a vain word, replace it with a tasbih.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist.

It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

It's good tying the sack before it be full.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.