Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Whoever possesses God is happy.

Love and do what you want. If you stop talking, you will stop talking with love; if you shout, you will shout with love; if you correct, you will correct with love.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.