The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.

Find a target. Know where your influence is heading towards. Find out those who will be interested in what you do and “why”. Now work hard to answer the question “why?

Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.