Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.