Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

Flowers feed the soul.

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.

What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.

Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.

Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

The mortician interviewing the corpses

I want people to have less me.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.