“Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite.”

Your desire for involvement with the world of means when Allah has withdrawn you from it is a fall from high aspiration.

Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’

Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.