It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!

It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a position to show that our ideology is vital enough to withstand the pressure of the changing times, and to decided in what way the fact of our being Muslims will affect the course of our lives: in other words, we must find out whether Islam can offer us precise directives for the formation of our society, and whether its inspiration is strong enough in us to translate these directives into practice.

It's very impossible to live by yesterday's standards and expect extraordinary results today. Live life with passion!

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.