The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.