There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for a time forget the cares of the world.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.