Only once was I made mute. It was when a man asked me , "Who are you?"

The significance of man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Only the dumb envy the talkative.

A madman is not less a musician than you or myself; only the instrument on which he plays is a little out of tune.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

If your heart is a volcano how shall you expect flowers to bloom in your hands?

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Government is an agreement between you and myself. You and myself are often wrong.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.

There lies a green field between the scholar and the poet; should the scholar cross it he becomes a wise man; should the poet cross it, he becomes a prophet.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The bitterest thing in our today's sorrow is the memory of our yesterday's joy.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

What we long for and cannot attain is dearer than what we have already attained.

Seven centuries ago seven white doves rose from a deep valley flying to the snow-white summit of the mountain. One of the seven men who watched the flight aid, "I see a black spot on the wing of the seventh dove." Today the people in that valley tell of seven black doves that flew to the summit of the snowy mountain.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.