Be careful to have truthful friends and try to obtain them, for they are your support when you are in welfare, and your advocator when you have misfo… - Jaafar Al-Sadiq

There are three things that signify the magnanimity of a person: good temper, patience, and to avoid aggressive gaze.

As for ‘Alī ibn Husayn (a), he cried over Husayn (a) for twenty years (after the tragedy of Karbalā); never would any food be placed before him except that he would begin to weep.

My words are the words of my father, and the words of my father are the words of my grandfather, and the words of my grandfather are the words of my great-grandfathers - Hasan and Husayn; and their words are the words of Ali, and the words of Ali are the words of the Prophet of Allah; and the words of the Prophet are the words of Allah.