“Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.”

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

I’ve realized that somebody who’s tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.

O my Lord, whatever share of this world You have bestowed on me, bestow it to my enemies, and whatever share of the next world You have for me, give it to my friends. You are enough for me.

Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change.

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.