“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”

“Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.”

“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”

“Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.”

“All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”

“fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while”

“It will always remain true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”