It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

Confidence is the illusion born of accidental success.

Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

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.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.