Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content..

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill..

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same..

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom..

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained..

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities..

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy w….

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free..

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision..

The inferiority of women is man-made..

We should respect all people..

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective..

Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our t….

What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization..

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears..

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done..

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness..

I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to m….

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for w….

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought..