It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

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.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

It takes a lot of energy to teach.

The unseen enemy is always the most fearsome.

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there.

Even boredom has its crises.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.