Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

- Aga Khan Iii

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

- Aga Khan Iii

There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a giv…

- Aga Khan Iii

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

- Aga Khan Iii

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

- Aga Khan Iii

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particu…

- Aga Khan Iii