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

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.

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.

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

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

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take...

I’m a big goofball, you know. Don’t tell anyone that, but I’m a big goofball. In Australia we call it a dag.

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

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Improvement begins with I.

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

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

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as...

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Love is trembling happiness.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

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

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don’t want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to...

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it’s a sign that I’m moving up the ladder.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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

Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

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

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing...

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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

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.