A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.