Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.
No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only.
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
A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.
For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.