However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.

Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.