People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

A man's measure is his will.

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

People are of two types: they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.