Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Only love and death will change all things.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.