“Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn."
"Yeah, it's a gift.”

“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.”

“The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean. It only has to open it's beak”

“I will love you as the manatee loves the head of lettuce and as the dark spot loves the leopard, as the leech loves the ankle of a wader and as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture.”

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

“Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.”

“You might think that a hornbill would have the most powerful excavation tool of all, but in fact its huge beak is a relatively delicate structure and no use at all as a chisel.”

“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”

“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”

“What you have is all His Gift to you. What you do with what you have is your Gift to Him …”