That you may be beloved, be amiable.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

A prosperous person programmes prosperous thinking into his or her mind.

We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

An army of lovers shall not fail.

The energies represented by the four #‎ elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with #‎ astrology