"Again the garden has got the glitter of Spring: The nightingale hears good news, for the rose is come. Soft wind returning to the young plants of the meadow, Greet for us the rose, the cypress and the…"

"The religious hypocrite, in his prayer, thinks of nothing but his own reputation."

"Drink wine and wreck the mosque, for the pious man who abstains will do a thousand worse things."

"The words you speak become the house you live in."

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."