Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.