That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.