Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Just as we shine the light of scrutiny on those around us, so must we also use it to illuminate our own lives

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.