Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints.

Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Through designing clothes, I try to bring solutions to people, and I'm interested in the everyday relationship we have to clothes.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

Through our senses the world appears. Through our reactions we create delusions.Without reactions the world becomes clear.

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.