No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.

You have mastered the art of discipline when you are able to act according to what you ultimately desire rather than how you feel in the present moment.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!

Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them.

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.