The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.