By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it.

I went off to fight some battle that I'd invented inside me.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.