Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.