Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

In this market every head has a different fancy: everyone winds his turban in a different fashion.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

You cannot break me. I believe in my self.

Cam himself, was faetouched. And the love of Cam's life, Ellie? She was all human, just in two parts - body and shadow.

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Your power ends where your fear begins.

I love my baby more than anything. He's like a Gerber baby. He's the cutest baby in the whole world.

I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.