There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.