Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

Love? Why ... it is what everybody feels for everybody else.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.