We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

...we must learn -once again- to regard Islam as the norm by which the world is to be judged.

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

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.

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

...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.