Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.