"None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world."

“He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.”

“In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!”

“People of dua are optimistic by definition. They know that dua and thoughts like 'unlikely' or 'impossible' don't coexist.”

“Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.”

Source : "A Wise Man’s View of Washington Still Rings True" by Diane Dimond, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2013.

“As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason.”

Source : George H. Smith (1974). “Atheism: The Case Against God”

“Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.”