It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Man flieht nicht, weil man Angst hat, sondern man hat Angst, weil man flieht.
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a somber gap glittering, glittering,...
It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious,...
A great man, Luigi Chinetti. Clever and smart and resourceful. He died in 1994 at the age of ninety-three years. I often wonder who he is now, who possesses his soul. Does a child know his own spiritual background, his own pedigree? I doubt it. But s...
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your ...
Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the morning, and lo, there is a newspaper, in sight like unto an emerald. And holy, holy, holy is the coffee, which was, and is, and is to come. And hark, I ...
Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a bracing and brightening of his languid consciousness, an emancipation from the fetters of appearance, a turning of his attention...
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write...
The nail supports the hoof, the hoof the horse, the horse the man, the man the world.
The wise man will be cheated only once.
The poor looks for food and the rich man for appetite.
What does the blind man know of the beauty of the tulip?
For every wise man there is one still wiser.
A learned man has always wealth in himself.
After all, every man is the son of a woman.
What the poor man says is not listened to.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.
The rich man doesn't pay, the debtor does.
The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper.
