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

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.

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

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

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.

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?”He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take But please don't cry Just know that I have made these songs for you.

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

If we do not create inner peace, outer peace is not possible.