If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

Your words are wise, but are your actions too?

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.