Perhaps a great love is never returned.
We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
When the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one.
The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
Life yields only to the conqueror.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
I have only my own burden to bear.
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.
In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us – we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.