When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.