“Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it.Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)”

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”

“I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-”

“Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?”

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”

“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed”