The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Writing is my pleasure and the play, where I find myself again and again.

All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

I do wear suits all the time.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.