Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

I have learnt that trusting another takes a leap of faith

The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.

Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.

Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.