All Sayings

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Whosoever, O Mazda, by his thoughts, words, and deeds makes a sacrifice to Thee, he shall be granted the best existence.

He who recognizes the One Lord through all, is a true Brahmin.

Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof.

Don't mix a fire with a knife.

I have seen the face of God.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.

I am a bluesman in the academy, a jazzman in the church, a funkster in the ivory tower.

The vulnerability of the body is not a problem to be solved, but a condition of human life to be acknowledged and embraced.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but, 'Can they suffer?'