“People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.”

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

I think that’s the biggest mistake men make on the first date.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend.

The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody.

But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn’t worry about the consequences.

The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun.