An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.