Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

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

"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."

"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."

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered."