You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.