Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Old age is an island surrounded by death.
Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.