No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.