The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.