"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."

"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."

"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"

"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."

"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."

"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."

"Love is trembling happiness."

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."