To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
