You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.