Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.