The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear.

Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

Divided as we may be by religion, we are united by charity.

Teachers learn from their students' discussions

We learn from here the humility of the Holy One, Blessed is He. Since man is in the likeness of the angels, and they would be jealous of him, for this reason, He consulted them.

God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply.

That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.

All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.