None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitiate, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.

Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer.

If you want the world to be loving and peaceful, I'll give you my heart and soul. For the heart is a symbol of truth and caring

The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

Blood doesn't make a family.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

If you know you're supported, you're going to work harder, you're going to be more focused on your mission.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

So the first thing in democracy, people must have satisfaction. If you don't have satisfaction, it's not going to work out.