The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
The student is to read history actively and not passively.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.