"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life."

"Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."

"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."

"The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"It is a unyielding truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."