Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.