All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Live your life without attracting attention.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Explaining or defending your dreams to people who don't understand them will actually take away time to making them come true!

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

The secret of every man who has ever been successful lies in the fact that he formed the bait of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.