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

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

'Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.'

'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.'

'For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.'

'In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.'

'Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.''

'For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?'

'You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.'

The Prophet