Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Today and every day: I offer the universe my love I offer the universe my peace I offer the universe my beauty of hope I offer the universe my deepest gratitude for her hospitality and generosity

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity.

There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.