What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? - Necessity; because it triumphs over all things. What is most difficult? - To know one's self. What is most easy? - To give advice. What method must we take to lead a good life? - To do nothing we would condemn in others. What is necessary to happiness? - A sound body and a contented mind.
Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.
Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful.
Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.
People flourish if they’re praised.
As the American Muslim community gets a little bit freer in terms of not being under the thumb of that kind of oppressive mentality, there is going to be some internal dissent. When you are consciously oppressed, you tend to sort of band together and unite because there's a necessity to do so. And that as that proceeds, some of those difference get more into the fore and I think that's the reason you are seeing some internal dissension as a byproduct of the fact that there is not this kind of immediate urgency to unify against this kind of onslaught because that onslaught is refuted.