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

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.