The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Apart my family, I have no living ties with that land.

We can love what we are, without hating what - and who - we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much.

Our goodness derives not from our capacity to think but to love.

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion or the gentle chidings of the best friend that God ever gives us.

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;A mother's secret hope outlives them all.