Violence begins with the fork.

There is no god greater than truth.

Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.