"Wit is often a mask. If you..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.”

“If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?”

“Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.”

“I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.”

“They have a plentiful lack of wit.”

“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”

“Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.”

“If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.”

“The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials.”