The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.