You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

Love means sharing the world with someone else.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.