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

You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.