إن عبادة الإله الواحد وحدها ستقرب الانسان من السلام الذي يتكلم عليه الجميع ولايفعل أحد شيئاً لتحقيقه.

I knew right there in prison that reading had forever changed the course of my life.

اذا كان الانسان مع الله كان الله معه وأرسل له عند الحاجة علامات تدل على ذلك.

They used as a reason for my transfer [from one prison to another] that I refused to take some kind of shots, an innoculation or something.

The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. and the I.R.S. all combined can't turn up a thing I got, beyond a car to drive and a seven-room house to live in.

I had heard for years of Muslim hospitality, but one couldn't quite imagine such warmth.

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been.

I hadn't hustled in the streets for years for nothing. I knew when I was being set up.

I don't think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did.