One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

No matter how busy a man is, he is never too busy to stop and talk about how busy he is.

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms from those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half our hunger.