Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.