“Through study and learning they earn the pleasure of princes- What comes of such learning?Butter never rises from boiling sour milk.Speak bird! What do you yearn by pecking newly sprouted grain?Nursing one broken heart, Bahu, is equal to the worship of many years.”

“Believe what you want, but I'm darker than the devil, in a porsche 911, sitting on the pedal. Burning through life, living hell on earth, and i hope you reconsider, and know i been a devil since birth.”

“Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a bus full of innocent passengers? In our countries, religion is the sole source of education, and this is the only spring from which that terrorist drank until his thirst was quenched. He was not born a terrorist, and did not become a terrorist overnight. Islamic teachings played a role in weaving his ideological fabric, thread by thread, and did not allow other sources—I am referring to scientific sources—to play a role. It was these teachings that distorted this terrorist, and killed his humanity; it was not [the terrorist] who distorted the religious teachings, and misunderstood them, as some ignorant people claim. When you recite to a child still in his early years the verse 'They will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternative sides cut off,' regardless of this verse's interpretation, and regardless of the reasons it was conveyed, or its time, you have made the first step towards creating a great terrorist.”

“I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an infant, really, I was at the mercy of others. Hour after hour of my life was spent waiting.”

“آمن بالحجر ولكن إياك أن تضربني به”

“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”

“There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.”