Generosity is to help a deserving person without his request, and if you help him after hisrequest, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.

Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.

The mirror is a good place to start judging.

A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.

The intangibles are a euphemism for we have no idea what we're looking for but we know it when we see it.

We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts