“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.”
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.