Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.