A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.