If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.

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.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.