Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

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

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.