The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.