You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.