The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.

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.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.