Kahlil Gibran

"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."

"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."

"You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."

"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."