“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.”

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.

Of course education becomes very very important and that’s for our human resource development.

Political development should start at the grassroots.

If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me?