It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.