What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.

The evil we create during the wars to save us, it can also end us when the war is over.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.

If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

Oxytocin rocks the world.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.