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

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.

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.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

To be happy, you simply need to choose happiness and it comes from within not without.

If you want to get understanding, keep the Word in your heart and not in your mind only.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I know I'm not going to understand women. I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.

Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.