The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

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.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

All work is empty save when there is love.