It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

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.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.