Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

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.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.

The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

I just hope we don’t cause a major paradox.

Botany is based on fixed genera.

People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other.

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.