If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

She's no angel.He's no saint.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.