There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.