All that is not given is lost.

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.

Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.