Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.

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 really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.

There’s a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

I would like to have seen my sons growing up.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.