The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.
You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.
The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still.