The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.

Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you