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

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

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

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

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

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

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

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

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

Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, ‘Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,’ but will curse and damn you when you say, ‘Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.’ There is something wrong with that press.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made.

Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer, teacher – let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

"You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose."

Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.