"If you start out by promising what you don't have even yet, you'll lose your desire toward getting it"(p25)

"God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that He left for you"(p30)

"People need not fear the unknown, if they are capable of achieving what they need and want"(p79)

"Once you get into the desert, there's no going back. And when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward; the rest is up to Allah, including the danger."(p80/81)

"We make a lot of detours, but we are always heading for the same desitnation"(p81)

"Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value"(p86)

"If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other"(p88)

"The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love fo each other"(p102)

"You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, its because that wasn't true love....the love that speaks the Language of the Wrold"(p126)