For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

[There are] so many things I've learned, and I'm still learning, actually.

Hope is a thing with feathers

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

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