It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

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

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.