It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.

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.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in 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.

How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.

Patience ensures victory.

Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.

The value of a life is but your consciousness of its importance.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

There is no room for play in Islam... It is deadly serious about everything.

On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.