No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only.

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.

Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.

…The Qur’an cannot be translated. …The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur’an, that inimitable symphony, the very...