I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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.