Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.