No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Never mistrust, unless given a reason.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

Social media isn't something that you "do", instead you have to "be" social.

Love met with respect and grand style Love - A flirtation with true lovers of love had taken his salvific beginning.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress