Our task is to change the world for the better, not to adapt ourselves to the world.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.