When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.