Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Do I dare Disturb the universe?

We can experience a change of heart by divine grace.

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

Shake It Up definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.