"The love of a parent for a..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

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

“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”

“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”

“The childless escape much misery.”

“Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.”

“It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.”

“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”

“Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.”

“I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.”