"I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."

"Proverbs are short sayings drawn from long experience."

"Absence, that common cure of love."

"Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water."

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."

"Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death."

"A useless life is an early death."

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."