“I speak and speak but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

Without stones there is no arch.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

He who obeys the command ‘Rejoice in the Lord’ has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers’ melt waters to go back

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar’s garb, commands respect.

Learn to obey before you command.