“Virtue is in the mind, not in the appearance.”

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.

Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Always have a black bow, a white bow, a rainbow bow – those bows will match literally just about everything!

Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.