Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.

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.

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

While the angels sing, I'd ask you to marry me, give you the sun for a diamond ring, if I could do those things.