"If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it."

“Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.”

“When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.”

“Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.”

Source : "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

“I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.”

“We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.”

“Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.”

“It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.”

“Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.”

Source : "‘Orange Is The New Black’ Stars’ Advice To Their Younger Selves Is Amazing" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.