Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Shit works out.

Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.