When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.

How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.

Patience ensures victory.

Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

The key function of a leader is, to build more leaders.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?

My love for my country is my religion.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.