"The middle path is the way to..." - Quote by Rumi

“When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?”

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadowof your love, that somehow containsthe entire universe.”

“Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.”

“I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."”

“I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.”

“A gun will give you the body, not the bird”

“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”

“With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.”

“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”