A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Never repeat old grievances.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.