In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

The hourglass runs low.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.