Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.