Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

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

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.