"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."