You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting