I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.