Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.