How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.