Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.

Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Patience to faith is like the head to the body. The person who has no patience has not faith.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Always consider your intellect to be lacking; otherwise too much faith in it surely leads to error.

Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.