“Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!”

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

You can’t win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

For someone who doesn’t have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

It would be nice to find a ‘planet of trees and birds’ in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds… Lonely trees are not lonely!

If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

The adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you’ve got nothing left!

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

I see all this talent, all this…this energy and brightness and…potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life.

What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

It’s an effulgence of the mind. It’s a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It’s an ability to accept life as it is.

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.