Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.

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.

When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

Music is my first love.

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.