The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

Had the Luhyas united, my plans would have been impossible to fulfil .