"May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies."

"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed."

"Perfect is the enemy of good."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

"How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same."

"Don't destroy your future by trying to teach people a lesson that the Universe is already going to give to them."