The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

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

How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.