Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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.

To belittle, you have to be little.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

And anyway, the anticipation was always worse than the thing itself - the anticipation and the memory, of course. And the anticipation of the memory was maybe the worst part of all.

Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.

Where there is humility, there you will find true humanity

All the kids with fancy shoes or clothes, do you know what I got with a family of nine? When ever we said let's play poker, we had a full team of adults right there.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.