Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.