Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

Work is love made visible.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.