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?

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea...

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

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

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the 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.

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

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

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

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...

If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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?

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...