و لكن ما أغرب سكوت صغيرتي المحبوبة, ما أغرب سكوتها. ذلك السكوت الطويل كالأبدية العميق كأحلام الآلهة-ذلك السكوت الذي لا يترجم إلى أية لغة بشرية. ألا تذكرين أنه لما جاء دورك في الكتابة لم تكتبي؟
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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.
بعد ذلك قنطت. وليس بين عناصر النفس عنصر أمر من القنوط. ليس في الحياة شيء أصعب من أن يقول المرء لنفسه لقد غُلبت.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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...
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.