“He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.”

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God’s knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.

Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

For that which is without a beginning, a final cause need not be sought.

For it is said, You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him, that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need.

Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

Keep hope alive!

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

It’s always nice to have those WTF moments that keep us aware.

We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but I want to STAY ALIVE.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.

The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.