From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

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

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

If you're gonna live, then live it up.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.