"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.