I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.