“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”

“A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.”

“He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.”

“My father(Imam Al-Baqir (as)) refined my manners by three statements. He said to me 'O son! A man who befriends a vile person cannot escape blame, a man who does not restrain his words will live in regret and a man who enters suspicious places will become subject to accusations.”

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself.He thought about the death mask. He could and could not say that the mask and the man were dead. What had happened to him was that the ways in which it could be said had become more interesting than the idea that it could not.”

“Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.”