For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.