If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.