“The worst of our faults is our interest in other people’s faults.”

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

The word of God is the medicine of the heart.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn’t believe it.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

Vanity prevents improvement

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

True friends are a single soul divided between different bodies.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

If you’re living your life in fear, then you’re just not living.

As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Against my will I stand beside my own reflection.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

All I want to do, is be more like me, and less like you.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.