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.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.