Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

We must seek to behold the greatness of our God.

(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.