What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendours and bears likeness of you, Most High One.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Water is the mirror of nature.

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.