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.

To belittle, you have to be little.

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

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

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.

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.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.

God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.