When Fortune knocks, open the door, ' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for a lot of people.

Gratitude is the heart's first language.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

I'm a proud person. I'm not vain. I look at it like it is. If you've got the money and you're going to be out there, you owe it to people not to look like a dog if you can help it.

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

Everyone is into male grooming.

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

Turn off any self-talk that tells you that you are destined to live a small life. You're not.