Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of mysticism of a line like ‘That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.’

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?