To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

Real kindness seeks no return.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?Vicky: Why do you want to live?Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but... I must.Vicky: That's my answer too.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

No! I don't feel any pressure right now!

Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means.