The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature.

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.

You can’t ignore our body. It’s the body that houses your healthy mind and a pious soul.

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance.

There’s nothing that brings peace to the mind like joy.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.