To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves--and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.