One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower. " That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.
Allah(God) is the greatest friend.
In Paradise there are things which no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has thought of.
Patience is the key to content.
Women are the twin halves of men.
Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.
Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.
Because I'm a "strong person," the symptoms hit me by surprise. It was, as I write in the book, stinging in my eyes after Sunday that I thought was an allergy, until one day I sat in the car and decided to just let my eyes tear up so that whatever was in them would come out, and what came out were tears that wouldn't stop. It was literally a physical reaction that was my first indication there was anything wrong.