If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

...to imitate Western civilization in its spirit, its mode of life and its social organization is impossible without dealing a fatal blow to the very existence of Islam as an ideological proposition.

If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him

Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

From a young age, I was viciously competitive.

The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.