My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.