The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'