Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.

How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.

Patience ensures victory.

Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.

There are zero excuses or delays when oneself is determined to grow.

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

He was planning to rape me -""Why would he ever -""Because he knew he'd get away with it.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.