My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.