"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

"I once asked a bird, 'How do you fly in this gravity of darkness?' She responded, 'love lifts me.'"

"Go, tell the pious man to burn his prayer-book; his prayers are but hypocrisy."

"I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew."

"Beyond the sphere passeth the arrow of our sigh. Hafez! silence. Show compassion to thy soul; avoid the arrow of ours."