You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.
Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.
Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.
The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.
Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.
More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.
Rejoice in liberating moments of victory when conflicts, trials, and adversity fall momentarily under your command.
If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!
I find that life just gets in the way and it gets so busy and there's so much chaos and stress that can come along with raising two teenage girls in Los Angeles and being married and working and, you know, everything that goes along with it. It's how do you find those calm moments, because everybody has this in their life.
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.