The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.