"Of his mercy he hath made for you the night and the day, that ye may rest in the one, and may seek to obtain provision for yourself of his abundance, by your industry, in the other."

"God loveth not the speaking ill of any one in public."

"Your God is one God, there is no God but He, the most merciful."

"As for him who voluntarily performeth a good work, verily God is grateful and knowing."

"Wherever ye be, God will bring you all back at the resurrection."

"Turn, therefore, thy face towards the holy temple of Mecca, and wherever ye be, turn your faces towards that place."

"O unbelievers, I will not worship that which ye worship, nor will ye worship that which I worship. ... Ye have your religion, and I my religion."

"Woe be unto those who pray, and who are negligent at their prayer who play the hypocrites, and deny necessaries to the needy."

"God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform."

"If God should punish men according to what they deserve, he would not leave on the back of the earth so much as a beast."

"Let not thy hand be tied up to thy neck, neither open it with an unbounded expansion, lest thou become worthy of reprehension, and be reduced to poverty."

"Whosoever flieth from his country for the sake of God’s true religion, shall find in the earth many forced to do the same, and plenty of provisions."

"Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers."

"O men, ... respect women who have borne you."

"Fight for the religion of God."

"O true believers, take your necessary precautions against your enemies, and either go forth to war in separate parties, or go forth all together in a body."

"Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given."

"Human society was so constituted, for human nature was so constituted, that the honour and dignity of a father were connected with that of a son; and there was no son who must not be disturbed and disquieted by imputations on his father."

"It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution."

"Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited—they are bounded by some lines of demarcation."

"I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us."

"A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source."

"In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction."

"We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration."

"I know of no privileged class of society, and I do not know an esquire has any privileges a yeoman has not."

"Sometimes I leave my room in a bit of a mess," he giggles. "And I can't do tricks on my skateboard. I just sit on it and roll down the hill. But although it sounds corny I get good grades at everything at school. But I'm not a swot. Honestly."

"When everyone clapped and told me they were impressed, I thought: 'I like this - I think I'll keep doing this"

"I always loved the original Oliver! film, especially the songs, so to be playing the role alongside Ron Moody, who played Fagin in the original version, feels like a dream. But every day of the past year has felt so fantastic, so brilliant, it seems unreal."

"Everything is so exciting at the moment. My school friends back home in Canterbury can't quite believe what I am up to. I can't wait for everyone to hear my new album"

"It's amazing, it really is!"

"I'm appearing in a new Working Title film. It's going to be my first big film and I'm really excited. The film itself will feature Simon Pegg, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton and myself. Filming has just started."

"I do like girls as friends, but definitely not as girlfriends. Bleurgh! Lots of girls try to hug me and tell me I'm cute, which is really embarrassing."

"This happened by accident," [Referring to his long hair] "I didn't get round to having a haircut for a while, and when it got long I thought it looked cool. I don't want anyone to change me. And hopefully, one day, I'll be known as the great child singer who developed into a great adult singer. That would be so cool."

"I write the lyrics first, then the music," he says. "I don't want to try to be someone I'm not, because people easily see through that. So I only write about my own experiences, things I know and enjoy. Like my pets. I can't write about lovey or coupley things."

"I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, sixteen years old, and from then on my memories virtually coincide with the history of the cinema ... I'm not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that I've had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as I'm interested in images, in books, in music, it's all due to the cinema."

"he was determined to make Earthsea into a movie."

"Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn't."

"I am the teller of the tale, not the creator of the story."

"Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later - now - there are not many men like Martin Scorsese. But so long as there is one there will be others, and the art of the cinema will survive."

"The truth lies in black and white."

"[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse."

"Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."

"Art is merciless observation, sympathy, imagination, and a sense of detachment that is almost cruelty."

"The great innovators have always been fearless.... I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I have been alone in an office with Louis B. Mayer."

"Actors and technicians were being demobbed every day. Very soon the only ham actor left in the combined forces would be General George Patton."

"For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art."

"We decided to go ahead with David O. (Selznick) the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully !"

"My master in film, Buñuel, was a far greater storyteller than I. It was just that in my films miracles occur on the screen."

"[Cinematographer] Jack Cardiff once asked Powell "Michael, do you make films for all types of audiences, or just for yourself?" Michael shook his head vigorously. "I make films for myself. What I express I hope most people will understand. For the rest, well, that's their problem.""

"[of his wife Frankie] In fact, if only I had been the perfect husband, she would have been the perfect wife."