I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

I’m just being me… Success is more than just a wish or desire

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Age does not matter if you're chasing your dream. As long as you work hard and smash those obstacles in your way, you'll see some progress.

Earth can live longer then the humanity or the humanity can live longer than the earth! Both are possible!

I'm not really one for regrets.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.