Man's heart is like a printing block. If the block does not err, then even if one copies ten million papers, there will not be errors. If the block errs, then if one repeatedly copies them on paper there will be none without errors.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

God seeks comrades and claims love; the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is a mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is ambiguity: the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

O, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill.

Good and evil ... are not what vulgar opinion accounts them; many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

People forget the good, because the bad has more punch.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?