Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.