Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

A man's measure is his will.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

When one hits the bottom of the Desperation Barrel there is always someone down there.

I'm not afraid to use Christ as an icon.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The intent to preserve and capture something is very different from the urge to share, but they had become intertwined.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it it will never be done.

With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it.

I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday it will be in the minority, and when that happens we'll want to block the other side's extremist agenda.'

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.