Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.