I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.

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.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam