To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

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.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

I'm going to be the president of a safe country. We have enough problems.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

The autodecrement is not magical.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.