Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Habits are qualities of the soul.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.

If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind