Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.