They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Your house is your larger body.

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.