“I would rather have a short life with width rather than a narrow one with length.”

“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ”

“I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.”

“Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.”

“غذای روح بود باده رحیق الحقکه رنگ او کند از دور رنگ گل را دقبه رنگ زنگ زداید ز جان اندوهگینهمای گردد اگر جرعه‌ای بنوشد بقبه طعم، تلخ چوپند پدر و لیک مفیدبه پیش مبطل، باطل به نزد دانا، حقمی‌از جهالت جهال شد به شرع حرامچو مه که از سبب منکران دین شد شقحلال گشته به فتوای عقل بر داناحرام گشته به احکام شرع بر احمقشراب را چه گنه زان که ابلهی نوشدزبان به هرزه گشاید، دهد ز دست ورقحلال بر عقلا و حرام بر جهالکه می‌محک بود وخیرو شر از او مشتقغلام آن می‌صافم کزو رخ خوبانبه یک دو جرعه برآرد هزار گونه عرقچو بوعلی می‌ناب ار خوری حکیمانبه حق حق که وجودت شود به حق ملحق”

“I have but one candle of life to burn, and i would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.”

“I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.”