People say to me, ‘do you know who you look like?’ and I say, ‘I’m really tired of looking like that guy.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

By all means marry. If you get a good spouse you'll become happy, while if you get a bad one you'll become a philosopher.

Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. conscience cannot stand much violence.

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.