Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.

Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. "Blood is thicker than anger.

Boxing day will never be the same now that Muhammed Ali is gone.

Brown is a manly color

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

Surprise comes from defying expectations.