“Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity.”

“Guide us in the path of peace, O Lord!”

“Work while you have strength.”

“Do all the work you can while you still have strength.”

“Do all the work you can, while there is grace of strength.”

“Thank God for the strength to work.”

“Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Tru...”

“The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.”

“Loss of hope is root of distress.”

“Even in Sri Lanka, the worst only happened in my imagination, I'd say, and this is so because we live on a planet where good people outnumber bad.”

“Death is a fearful thing.”

“That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.”

“The heart is delighted by the first,The other makes the mind go numb;Happiness and gloom like twins,Holding the hands together come!”

“The world is a palace without bedsheets”

“When he came down, he was slower, and clutching something his hand. He leapt down the last 5 feet or so and came over to me, uncurling his fingers. In his palm was something trembling and silky and...”