The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.
The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.
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.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.