“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

“It is not altogether true that persuasion is one thing and force is another. Many forms of persuasion – even many of which everybody approves – are really a kind of force. Consider what we do to our children. We do not say to them: "Some people think the earth is round, and others think it is flat; when you grow up, you can, if you like, examine the evidence and form your own conclusion." Instead of this we say: "The earth is round."”

“Time wears out bodies, renews hopes, brings death nearer and takes away aspirations. Whoever gets anything from the world lives in anxiety for holding it and whoever loses anything passes his days grieving over the loss.”

“My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don't eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.”

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

“When you come to the place where you can’t do anything else, you must stand still and believe… When you can’t do anything, let God do it all.”