All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.