Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.

A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination. He firmly believed in the significance of reviving the Arab spirit and protecting the freedom of thought and the freedom of human conscience.

Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.