“Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.”

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Think positively, no matter how hard life is.

Where there is haste, there must be mistake.

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in time of need, behind your back, and after your death.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude.

People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Do not take someone’s silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

He lives as though death shall never come to him – but dies in a way as if he were never born.

The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.