“Your thoughts are making you.”

Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.

There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.

They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil.

They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.