Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten . . . not for one second

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

It is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

Technology alone is not enough.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

People with religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

Do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don't get what you want? Even when nothing makes sense?