“You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.”

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what’s bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.

Islam is not a set of rules. It’s a way of seeing life and the world.

Not letting our mood affect the way we treat people is a forgotten sunnah

Allah says Jannah is awesome, imagine how awesome that is when the All-Knowing is calling it awesome.

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we’ve been given.

Regret is a form of punishment itself.

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

Islam is not about “we’re better than you”. Rather it is about “let me show you something that is better for you.

I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan.

I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I’ll be saying that about my entire life

Forget bad deeds, even the good we do are full of mistakes.

Your sin is not greater than God’s mercy.

If shaytan has entered into your heart – evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.

The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don’t have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Spirituality helps develop good character. It is character that shines bright when words fail to do so.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.