The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Deceit is the mark of evil. Even if the evil messenger does not appear in person, the test is the same.

Focus on one goal allowed the achievement of many desires.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.