Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

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

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.