"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"Give your hearts, but not into each othera€?s keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts."

"He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men."

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give."

"You try to give away what you want yourself."

"There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man."

"The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed."

"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver."

"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."