Some Gems from Khalil Gibran

I have just started reading Khalil Gibran's Greatest Works. Everybody knows about 'The Prophet'. But his other works are equally good.He is the third most widely read poet in history - after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.(+ other standard wiki stuff..Spare both of us the pain and look up there if you want to).Too much for an unschooled Lebanese immigrant?? A couple of pages were enough to convince me he deserves this stature. His work blurs the lines between prose and poetry.They sum up life's truths - from the humble ones to the heroic with enchanting beauty.As I haven't written anything worthwhile in the last six months or so,why not give a highlight of his work. Here we go.  

• We often borrow from our tomorrows to pay the debt of our yesterdays.
• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from the truth. 
• There is a space between man's imagination and man's achievement that may only be traversed by his longing. 
• If all they say of good and evil were true, then my life is but one long crime.
• Inspiration will always sing.Inspiration will never explain.
• Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure. Only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
• When two women talk,they say nothing.. When one woman speaks,she reveals all of life.
• Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than our rights. 
• Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
• Paradise is there, behind that door, in the next room. But I have lost the key..Perhaps I have only mislaid it.
• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
• But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.