He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.

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.

The wiser a man is, the less talkative will he be.

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