It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

simplicity is the best sophistication