• Be fully aware of the reality of suffering around you because it helps nurture compassion. And, when compassion arises from such an awareness, positive action is possible.

• You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

                Malcolm X 

• Understanding why you are motivated, motivates you to do what you should.
  

                Afroz Ali- During training with Al-Gore on Climate Change

• We can be sure that our greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

                Francis J. Braceland- author

• The best among you are those with excellent character. 

                   Muhammad, The Messenger of God
                   peace and blessings of God be upon him

•  He is not from amongst us, who shows no mercy to the young and no respect to the elder.
  

• The character of a man is easily known from what he says about others.

                'Ali ibn Abi Talib, Companion of Muhammad

• People who have courage and character, always seem sinister to those who do not have it.

                Hermann Hesse, Swiss author 

• Self empowerment is in self responsibility. Blaming others makes you a victim... and victims are usually helpless.

                Afroz Ali- Interfaith Forum The Imam & The Pastor, August 2007

•  If we are to right the world, we must first rectify our hearts.
  

                 Shaykh Hamza Yusuf- Zaytuna Institute

• Be the change you wish to see in the world.
  

                Mahatma Gandhi

• Floods are 'acts of God', but flood losses are largely acts of mankind.
  

                Chuck Coleman- letter to the editor, National Geographic magazine on Hurricane Katrina

• God is a good God and doesn't have or need to throw temper tantrums like a spoiled and undisciplined child, in order to get his way or because he appears not to have it. We should not attempt to reduce God to such mundane human variables.'