“Love those you hate you.”

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

It’s always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you’re the same, and they hate you if you’re different.

You know what I hate the most? People that imitate owls.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Don’t you hate it when, your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)