“In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.”

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind] and believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.