The most content people are those who expect nothing, who have ceased to dream.

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.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

I've come to see that the way my life shows up is actually my purpose.