Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.