it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Sometimes I wish I could sneak a peek into that mind of yours and see what you’re thinking. Especially when you smile at me like that. ~ Oliver Sand

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts—the cells.

It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.