In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

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.

Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten.

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

A lot of people have strong beliefs, but they don't have the confidence to really stick to them. I really respect Kanye [West] for that.

Some people need God and some people need science.

All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?