"Poverty is a veil that obscures the..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“Remembrance is a form of meeting.”

“I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.”

“I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.”

“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”

“No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].”

“To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.”

“At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.”

“Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.”

“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.”