Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.

Love of the world is the root of all evil.

Remember God in prosperity, and He will remember you in adversity.

The world is a magician greater than Harut and Marut, and you should avoid it.

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.

A hundred families have left in the last two days. A hundred, maybe 200 more, are coming in the next week.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger.

Be in the world like a traveler, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead.

The world and all things in it are valuable; but the most valuable thing in the world is a virtuous woman.

Taxi drivers won't give us a ride, because we don't have money. We warn this is only a first step.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.