“The different sorts of madness are innumerable.”

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

There are no incurable diseases – only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs – only the lack of knowledge.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

It is in the nature of water … to become transformed into earth through a predominating earthy virtue; … it is in the nature of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating aqueous virtue.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

I’m Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

Fireworks feel different when the fire lives within.

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I’m like – I ain’t gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I’m doing well with it.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain’t in the same lane.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.