"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.Someone..." - Quote by Rumi

“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.”

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

“If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.”

“The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.”

“And you will remember that love is not getting, but giving; not a wild dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — oh no, love is not that — it is goodness, and honour, and peace, and pure living — yes, love is that; and it is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives longest.”

“America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because all those who came here believed they could create upon this continent a new life -- a life that should be new in freedom.”

“A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”

“The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.”