You never can overwhelm an instrument. You will never get out all that's in an instrument. An instrument will bring you to your limits..

Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place..

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself..

You must learn to see, what you are looking at.

We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend….

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be..

For me it's always God, family, and then my work..

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing..

I make more movies than I see..

Some sorts of truth are truer than others..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

I don't like things that aren't true..

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts..

You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time..

Nobody tells me f-k all!.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be..

Thou shalt not take anything on faith.

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it be….

Get all the education you can then go out and do something - do anything..

Don't immanentize the eschaton!.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong..