Happy Birthday to the master of style and beauty... the inspiring prophet... Khalil Gibran! Some of his lovely words:

* A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

* All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

* But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

* Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

* For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?