When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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.

A friend can give you the freedom to think differently.

The point of racism is to dehumanize those targeted by the racism. Violence as a reaction to injustice provides ammunition to racists.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

He who dallies is a dastard, He who doubts is damned.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.