Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

The road to true love never did run smooth.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

Their plans were improved with the best advice.

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.