He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

There’s many a man has more hair than wit.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.