Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

The more we have the less we own.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Think more about who you are and less about what you do, for if you are just, your ways will be just.

Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.