We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

The children come through us. They are not of us.

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. Should we all reveal our virtues we would also laugh for the same cause.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.