We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams, or as sudden hunches and insights that cannot be denied. They feel more as if they emerge from inside and steer you from within like an inner guardian angel. . . . And, most amazing, it has never forgotten you, although you may have spent most of your life ignoring it.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.