He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

Sam Snead did to the tee-shot what Roger Bannister did to the four-minute mile.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.