It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Every man has within himself the entire human condition
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Only the fools are certain and assured.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U. S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.
But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises.
People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.
Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet.