Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Love is trembling happiness.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?