And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

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

And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

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