Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.
Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
My real motivation is to reach 3:25. . . I am still young; I have a lot of time left in my career.