“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it.”

“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”

“I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.”

“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

“True beauty lies in purity of the heart.”

“You can't lead a true life without suffering”

“We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.”