Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.
What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.
The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.
When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.
When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good.
I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.
It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good. "
. . . If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobody shows up. The weirdest of the weird are what you retain.
Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.