If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

Rejection allowed me to appreciate the beauty of acceptance.

Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable.

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced. – Unknown

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'