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.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

This world's a bubble.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?