Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

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

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.