“There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

The greatest pleasure is not – say – sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity – well, that’s the job of the writer.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.