He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

...according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

Getting it done is my reward.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

I love surfing more than cricket. It's more interesting and you meet great people.

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.

All my book are my favorites.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.