Prefection is not of this world.

The best form of devotion to the service of God is not to make a show of it.

Your cultural heritage is unique and universally admired. Enhance your traditions and project them into the 21st century. Move ahead within your own idiom and culture. If you want to change course, do so. It is man's privilege to control what he does with his own built environment. If you are uncertain, we will help you, because it will be your achievements which are the key to our long term success

In considering solutions we must recognise that there are differences between Muslim and Western outlooks on life and man's relationship to the universe.

Education determines people's approach to the widest problems facing civilization.

But buildings alone do not make a school. Good teaching makes a school

Teachers are the leaders in developing a nation's intelligentsia, without which a country cannot generate its own progress, either cultural or economic.

Volunteers have always been the life-blood of the Aga Khan social welfare institutions. Without their support none of our institutions could function as they do. Today, when resources are so limited in relation to the demands for improvement in education and in health, self-help effort is more important than ever before.

Freedom must not be allowed to degenerate into licence, whether in universities or in society as a whole. When it has so degenerated, it has invariably destroyed the very civilizations which gave it birth.

The truth, as the famous Islamic scholars repeatedly told their students, is that the spirit of disciplined, objective enquiry is the property of no single culture, but of all humanity. To quote the great physician and philosopher, Ibn Sina: "My profession is to forever journeying, to travel about the universe so that I may know all its conditions."