“How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.”

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

When you let people upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not look away.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

Making new friends is tough. You don’t really know who to trust when you’re away from people that you love a lot.