May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

Love never claims, it ever gives.