If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

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.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space.

There is a devil, and he knows my name.

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

A lot of things inspire me. Music, for one; in addition to acting, I'm also a musician.

No man or woman can live another's fate

Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

I collect a lot of art.

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.