Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

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.

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.

Without triers they would never be any successors

I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won’t stand the same from another man?

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.