Habits are qualities of the soul.

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done

In every out-thrust headland in every curving beach in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.

In fact, sometimes when I look at something my memory does work. I remember the panel where Alex Toth told me, "Mike, if you really don't understand all that, you don't need to put it on there."

I have total control over everything. I'm doing it all for me.