We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

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

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.