Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

Do not blame the food because you have no appetite.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.