In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Everybody needs one essential friend.
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.
I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.
Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya.
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.