Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.