To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

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.

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive.

There are those who speak and those who dream.

Without struggle there is no progress.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.