Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

Truthfulness is composed of justice and courage.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

The wise man knows the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

I deeply care about what the fans think.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

You better play together as a team or you sit.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.