Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, ‘Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,’ but will curse and damn you when you say, ‘Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children.’ There is something wrong with that press.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.