“Long only for what you have.”

“Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.”

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?”

“We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.”

“If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.”