Kahlil Gibran's classic sayings include:

1. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

2. Thoughts are like birds in the sky. In the cage of language, they may spread their wings, but they cannot fly.

3. Your mind is often a battlefield. On this battlefield, your reason and judgment are at war with your passion and lust.

4. Yesterday is just a memory of today, and tomorrow is just a dream of today.

5. Exaggeration is the truth lost in temper.

6. Those who listen to the truth are not weaker than those who speak the truth.

7. A shy failure is more noble than a proud success.