If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

For man plans, but God arranges.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." The master replied, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and then chewed it up for you before giving it to you?" If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.