And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth.