Valuation quotes

  • The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

  • What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.

  • Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

  • Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

  • Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered.

  • I've never been to heaven and, thinking back on my life, I probably won't get a chance to go. I guess the Masters is as close as I'm going to get.

  • What you need will come back to you.

  • I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

  • Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

  • I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.