If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
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