Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.

One who directs to good is rewarded similar to the doer of good.

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.

To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman.

Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.

There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.

Eat together and not separately, for the blessing is associated with the company.

An adulterer will not commit adultery when he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will not steal when he has full faith (in Allah).

We make art so that we can feel life. We do science to understand it.

If any belief or societal dogma prevents peaceful societal change or progress, that society will inevitably be victims of miserable violent changes.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.