"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."