Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

Greed lessens what is gathered.

Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

Fortune is with you for an hour and against you for ten!

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.

I've kept in touch with many of my former teammates: Bob Marcucci was our team manager and we bonded over our passion for baseball.

The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.