Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

All work is empty save when there is love.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.