“It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.”

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.