In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.