Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.