Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

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.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

I don't believe that there's a silver bullet, that if you just do this one thing, you solve the problems of the world.

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

All things come to those who go after them.