The sea is certainly common to all.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

I’ve always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes

Today’s experience prepares you for better tomorrow.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.