Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?