There are four things Allah cannot do: lie, deny himself, die or look favorably on sin.
If a woman hears that something unusual is going on in heaven, she would find a ladder to go and look.
Before you prepare to improve the world, look around your own house three times.
You can't look at the stars while you are walking if you have a stone in your shoe.
I am a gentleman and you are a gentleman; who, then, should look after the pigs?
The old man looks death in the eye, the young man keeps him behind his back.
You don't really see the world if you only look through your own window.
A few years ago, when I was hitchhiking through Laramie, Wyoming, I met an old and infertile man named John. I told him, “I think I’d have made a good son, John. But I’d have made an even better Johnson.” He nodded as he took a long drag from...
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the dignity of any man, and the party was right: One man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic. Five m...
I leaned my head back. "I look worse than I did the night you met me." "I thought you looked fine." I rolled my head to the side, so I could see him. Hoping the shadows made it so he couldn't see me. "What are you talking about? I looked like a Cirqu...
Small but growing is better than big and stuck.
Owning less is better than organizing more.
It really is better to be lucky than to be good.
I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.
It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
No one else can understand you better than you yourself.
Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.
Lonely was much better than alone.
I want to need you.
There is no security without freedom.
Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.
