The best revenge is to improve yourself.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

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

The relation of patience to iman is like the relation of the head to the body. If the head is chopped off, the body becomes useless. Then he raised his voice and said: Certainly, the one who has no patience has no iman, and patience is like a riding-beast that nevers gets tired

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

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.