Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

Convert every passing time of your life before it melts away.

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

The next world war will be fought with stones.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Work like you don't need the money.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.