Love is an illness which doesn't have good nor recompense.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Expecting gratitude for a gift is... unseemly.

You’ll never have the chance to work this stuff out unless you give yourself the chance.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

It's kind of cool—and it makes me feel like a badass. I get more girls than my boyfriend. They always tweet me about my booty.

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.