I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?