A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Age considers; youth ventures.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
We live in the world when we love it.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.