“If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.”

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

I’m able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.