The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.