minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

I'm deathly afraid of rats.

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.