Yahya Mohamed

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race – the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

It is a profitable Wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and Pains are spared, in not flattering our selves against Probabilities.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.