He who wins through fraud is not a winner.

Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).

Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you. And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.

If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.