Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him which is his truth, which is his soul the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy

Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defense, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself