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.

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

For after the Battle comes quiet.