For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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

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.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.