For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss.

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

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