Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.