“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

“A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.”

“The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.”

“Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.”

“Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.”

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

“Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.”