Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

When you judge another, you judge a child of God, and when you condemn another, you condemn your Heavenly Father.

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

Amidst such Soulful exploration each passage - is given new meaning, wisdom & insight.

Anyone young, famous and beautiful who dies young is forever frozen in time and fascinating to all of us.

Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.