Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
A story can only be contained in a book.
In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.