“Monks throng like a kennel of pups
from disputing with the masters who instruct them
whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters
or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.”

“Unless one cultivates slave-master relationship with the Lord,
No one can go across the ocean of this material world.
Who is as virtuous a master as Rama?
And who is as vicious as I am?”

Tulsidas (1532–1623) Hindu poet-saint

“4702. The Passions are like Fire and Water; good Servants, but bad Masters.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“For one who knows how to speak, it is like water pouring out of Eta [a device to draw water from a well]. For one who does not know, it is just the rope hanging down.”

Sarvajna Kannada poet, pragmatist and philosopher

“One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”

John Climacus book The Ladder of Divine Ascent

“The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.”

Ray Kurzweil (1948) Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist

“Dancing with the wind: the fire burns, the water drowns.”

Travis Meeks (1979) American musician