Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

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.

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

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.

You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.

In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.

Laws ... would be useless on the moon.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

I set little goals and as I hit those little goals I know they're moving me forward.

My main concern is with the anxiety that has settled upon America.

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.