O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

If one finds oneself with bread in both hands, that person should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

Flowers feed the soul.

Pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.