Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

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

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?

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.