Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

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

The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.

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

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts.