One lie will keep out forty truths.

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck

I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.

I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.