Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

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.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

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