People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

Habits are qualities of the soul.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.