Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.