We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

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?

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.