He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.

Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.