It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
The majority of men. . . are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and. . . are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.
Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.