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

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.

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.

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

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.