The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.