If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.

If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have only twenty options.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.
The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.
The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.