Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

 At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. 

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. 

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Patience is the key to joy.

Sit, be still, and listen.

Silence gives answers.

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.

The source of now is here.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.