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.

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.

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

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

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.

No doubt a brain and some shoes are essential for marathon success, although if it comes down to a choice, pick the shoes. More people finish marathons with no brains than with no shoes.

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.