We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.

Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.

I don't want people who just tell me what they think I want to hear, because that doesn't do me any good.

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.

We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.