"This discipline and rough treatment are a..." - Quote by Rumi

“No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!”

“A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.”

“I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.”

“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”

“All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.”

“What a new face courage puts on everything!”

“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.”

“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”

“Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.”