Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.

If you want something done right get someone else to do it.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.