The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.