A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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.