Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

Failure is not fatal until we surrender trying again is the key of glorious victory

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

Underdog strategies are hard.

The futility of something is not always (in love and in politics) a sufficient argument against it.

We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight

[Practical intelligence is] practical in nature: that is, it's now knowledge for its own sake. It's knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Capitalization learning”: we get good at something by building on the strengths that we are naturally given.

. . . it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around.