A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.