People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself

I hate when people don't keep their word or they are late. Tardiness is a big pet peeve of mine.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

When it comes to 'Glee, ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

Stand firm, don't flutter!

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be