"Know that coyness has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall turn to weakness; generosity has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall become wasting; economy has a certain extent and if exceeded, shall be stinginess; and courage has a certain extent, which if exceeded, becomes recklessness."

"There is a limit to caution and farsightedness; if one goes beyond the limit, fear and wretchedness will result."

"It is sufficient for your morality, not to involve yourself with the things you do not approve of in others."

"Every curiosity is in need of the curiosity of speech."

"The one for whom the day of ‘Āshūrā is a day of tragedy, grief and weeping, Allah The Mighty, The Glorious, shall make the Day of Judgment, a day of joy and happiness for him."

"He who takes himself to account gets benefitted, and the one who gets negligent and careless about himself bears loss. The one who fears (Allah) becomes peaceful, and the one who takes lesson becomes most clear sighted and discerning. He who becomes most clear sighted, understands; and he who understands and comprehends becomes knowledgeable and informed."

"Reason is a free gift from God and politeness is acquisition. He who undertakes politeness has power over it. He who undertakes reason increases (himself) through that nothing but ignorance."

"He who reckons his own soul is successful; he who is heedless of it is unsuccessful."

"Man is not worshipful unless he is clement."

"Worship is not the abundance of prayer and fasting; rather it is the abundance of reflecting on the affairs of God, the Great and Almighty."

"The worst of men is he who stops his contributions to charity, eats by himself, and whips his slave."

"Assisting the weak is better for you than your act of charity."

"One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth."

"A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life."

"For the Devil, the presence of learned one is by far more painful than a thousand worshipers."

"Silence is one of the gates to wisdom."

"Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good."

"Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences."

"Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question."

"Everyone's friend is his reason; his enemy is his ignorance."

"Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies."

"The most valuable stage of wisdom is the stage of self-consciousness."

"A trustworthy person does not betray you, but you consider the betrayer to be trustworthy."

"The rank of the eldest brother is like that of father."

"The miserly one is never restful; the envious is never pleased; the grumbler is never loyal; the liar has no conscience."

"The best wealth is the one by which the honour of man is protected."

"Time will come when one's safety lies in ten things: nine of which are in staying aloof from men, and the tenth in staying silent."

"Imam warned that disunity undermines Islam and causes to interrupt Divine blessings. He always reminded that only through unity can the Muslim Ummah achieve progress."

"If Iran is exploiting the ‘Shia factor’ in its foreign policy then it is wrong. But I believe this to be untrue. I visited Lebanon five or six years ago when I was parliamentary speaker during Khatami’s era and we exerted all efforts in preserving the unity between the Sunnis and Shia."

"The Quran encourages us to expose the reality of those who are followed by exhorting the followers to be aware of the faults of the oppressors no matter how strong and influential they would appear to be."

"This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message, and through obeying the Prophet, abiding by his orders, leaving what he prohibits and obeying all what Allah has revealed to him, because that is the vivid expression of the practical love that fills his whole entity."

"From an Islamic point of view, women are as responsible as men to help people finding their way to God (S.W.T), and to guide society in the right path with all the power they have."

"And just like men are responsible of the society, women also are equally responsible of the society they live in."

"The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available."

"Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her."

"Islam emphasized the internal purity of man that is achieved through the purity of the mind in realizing the Right and the purity of feelings through having the pure intention towards man, far away from the meanness of malevolence and hatred and through the purity of the movement that is not lunched except for the sake of justice, Good and life."

"On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations."

"In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity."

"Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner"

"In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet."

"But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace."

"What is meant here is that man should not become immersed in loving the world which will make him forget the responsibilities that Allah had ordered him to hold, but he has to look at the world in its reality, in which it represents a place for obeying Allah."

"We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity."

"The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region."

"America does not seek good for Islam, for the Muslims, and for the repressed."

"Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden"

"Female masturbation is permissible unconditionally."

"Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially with the intention of supplication."

"Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer."

"Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness."