To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Beauty is seeing, the world through colored glass, of seeing everything in its glory, it's all it ever asks.

The price on money is life

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore

Water is happy when it falls

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.