Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance

The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.