It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final truth of our existence lies in this. God, the Supreme Soul, is in me, as well as in my son, and my joy in my son is the realisation of this truth.

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.