God is beautiful and He loves beauty.

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

Flowers feed the soul.

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

Church should be like a dating service: tell you about His heart and then give you His contact information.

We don't always get the journey we want. But we always get the journey we need.

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.