Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
Great joys, like griefs, are silent.
No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to get used to it, and to proceed to build your life in accordance with it.
There are several different meanings of the words "religion" and "spirituality," all of which are important. The whole point about an integral or comprehensive approach is that it must find a way to believably include all of those important meanings in a coherent whole.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.