“The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.”

“Charity does not mean doing good to him who does good to you, for this is to return good for good. Charity means that you should do good to him who does you harm”

“All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”

“Anyone who does not love Him Who made man has not learned to love man aright.”

“He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.”

“He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.”