Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.