If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that's it. That is what real freedom is.

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.

You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have turned around and thrown the world in my lap. You have told me, "Leave all things and follow me," and then You have tied half of New York to my foot like a ball and chain. You have got me kneeling behind that pillar with my mind making a noise like a bank. Is that contemplation?