Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

I can't determine the order of events. But I can trust God to guide my footsteps.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

Don't take things for granted.

God is man idealized.

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

At our best, we're all teachers

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.