The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
The house, the stars, the desert – what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
The one thing that matters is the effort.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.