Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

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.

We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we don’t see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

Dancing cheek to cheek.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

Seek to understand rather than be understood.