My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.

If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

This world is not a place where people can be together forever.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

Whoever will give sadaqa, his wealth will increase.

I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.

Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).

Generosity always pays.

Wealth is something that is closer to the heart.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing songs in which people all over the world can relate to.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I took more hell for being fat than I did for being an absolute raging drug addict. I will never understand that.

My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.