Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.