Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

One does not seek love, ' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?

Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

When you ask "why", "what if" and "why not" you force yourself to explore what's possible and not just what is.

World will suffice for me in the future.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.