"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

"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?"

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"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."

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."

"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."

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."

"Your friend is your needs answered."

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."

"You have your ideology and I have mine."

"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."

"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."

"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."

"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

"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."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."

"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."

"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

"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."

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."