“You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.”

“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”

“This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.”

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”

“What light through yonder window breaks?”

“Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light”

“The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”

“The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.”

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

“Love is the way messengersfrom the mystery tell us things”

“Love sees with the heart and not with mind.”

“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”

“Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.”

“Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.”

“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.”

“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”

“Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.”

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

“There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”